Work in Holland

in the 1600's

Buitenwatersloot 121

south side 5 properties east of Gaswinckelstraat at corner of Handboogstraat (alley)

current use:

residence

year built:

1910

ORA inv. 281-283 or 285 fol.:

059v1

from:

Jan van Til 5x086v

family owner:

Pieter Maartens Leeuwenhoek

sale letter fol.:

6f239

to:

Pieter Poot 6n239v

Pieter Maartens Leeuwenhoek's (1693-1750) grandmother Adriaentgen Cornelis van Spaendonck (1628-1688) lived with Pieter's great great-grandfather Gerrit Adriaans van der Made (whose father was on the Veertigraad in 1566) on the Buitenwatersloot. Gerrit Ariens sold it to Adriaen Gerrits Middelburch, who bequeathed it to Pieter Gillis Corput, who sold it to Johannes Everts and Claes Gerrits van den Berch (same sale letter). Next, it went to Corstiaen van der Hoeve (in the sale letter seller was not Claes Gerrits van den Berch) then Jan van Til, who sold it back into the family to Pieter Leeuwenhoek. Historisch GIS indicates that Pieter Poot had it well before 1740, but the Burg geneology has Anthonij Pieters Leeuwenhoek living here in 1768; he may have rented it.